An Eye Witness Account
from New York City, on a cold day in December...
Hopefully, this is the kind of thing that happens frequently,
everywhere.....
A little boy about 10 years old was standing before a shoe store on
Broadway, barefooted, peering through the window, and shivering with cold. A
lady approached the boy and said, "My little fellow, why are you looking so
earnestly in that window?"
"I was asking God to give me a pair of shoes," was the boys reply.
The lady took him by the hand and went into the store, and asked the clerk
to get half a dozen pairs of socks for the boy. She then asked if he could
give her a basin of water and a towel he quickly brought them to her.
She took the little fellow to the back part of the store and, removing her
gloves, knelt down, washed his little feet and dried them with a towel. By
this time the clerk had returned with the socks. Placing a pair upon the
boy's feet, she purchased him a pair of shoes, and tying up the remaining
pairs of socks, gave them to him. She patted him on the head and said, "No
doubt, my little fellow, you feel more comfortable now?"
As she turned to go, the astonished lad caught her by the hand, and looking
up in her face, with tears in his eyes, answered the question with these words
